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fastening such full sheets in the sections. 

 Of course, if the appearance of the honey is 

 not enough l)etter to bring an extra price, 

 then nothing is gained. But there is not 

 enough strictly fancy comb honey on the 

 market, and bee-keepers can -well afford to 

 experiment with any methods that will tend 

 to produce better grades. Fancy comb hon- 

 ey never goes begging. It is the honey 

 which is only "fair ' in quality that makes 

 the producer hustle to get rid of it at a prof- 

 it.— f:D.] 



RHEUMATISM CURED. 



Another Case of this Disease Cured by Bee- 

 Stints. 



BY HIRAM LANDIS. 



[Our honey-man, Mr. J. A. Warren, recently became 

 acquainted with a gentleman who had been cured of 

 rheumatism by bee-stings. His statements proved to 

 be so interesting that he was asked to write a short 

 article for Gleanings, hence this letter. 



It will be noted that the cure is every bit as marvel- 

 ous as the fake cures so often lauded by the patent- 

 medicine concerns, and yet we have every reason to 

 believe that Mr. Landis' story is true. 



Personally we have no faith in bee-stings as a cure 

 for all forms of rheumatism, nor perhaps even for the 

 same forms that afflict different individuals. There is 

 no doubt, however, that it proves beneficial in many 

 instances Certain it is, there is no patent on the bee- 

 sting cure; it is free to all who wish to try it.— Ed.1 



HIRAM LANDIS, OF PITTSBURG, PA., WHO WAS 



RECENTLY CURED OF RHEUMATISM BY 



BEE STINGS. 



I am glad to give you any information you 

 wish in regard to my successful cure of rheu- 

 matism, which, I am satisfied, is the only per- 

 manent cure in existence up to the present 

 time, or at least the only one 1 have heard of 

 yet. I suffered for seven months, and took 

 all the truck imaginable; but nothing did me 

 any good. 



I paid a visit to an old friend, Mr. D. B. 

 Travis, in Armstrong Co. , Pa. I got acquaint- 

 ed with old Ur. Sharp in Dayton, Pa., on 

 the B. K. & P. R. R. He said he would give 

 me a cure, but added I would not take it — 

 that it was a sure cure, as he had suffered 

 for one year, and it had cui-ed him. I told 

 him I could take any thing he could. Then 

 he told me to cover my face and roll 

 up my sleeves and stir up a bee-hive and let 

 them sting me in the arms all they would. I 

 did so. I got 25 stings, and it never swelled. 

 In a day or so I went back and got another 

 dose of the same medicine. It never swelled; 

 but the third time it swelled and I quit. I 

 took no more truck to knock out my stomach, 

 and I felt better every day; and in four weeks 

 I went on the road and have been out in all 

 kinds of weather for a year and six months. 

 I have not felt the least effect of rheumatism 

 since — not even in a change of weather. I 

 have been on the road for 50 years, and feel 

 like a four-year old boy. 



My rheumatism commenced in my knees, 

 and finally got up into my shoulders and 

 arms. I could scarcely get out of bed. I 

 could not put on my clothes myself for seven 

 months until I got stung by the bees. Dr. 

 Sharp told me that the poison of the stings 

 would eradicate the poison or uric acid in 

 the blood, and said I would get rid of my 

 rheumatism. 



Pittsburg, Pa. 



BEE-KEEPING IN QUEBEC. 

 A Foul-brood Act to be Passed. 



BY R. F. HOLTERMANN. 



Few outside and perhaps not many inside 

 the province of Quebec realize the magnitude 

 of the bee-keeping industry in that part of 

 Canada. There are probably quite as many 

 colonies of bees kept in that province as in 

 Ontario, and yet there is a good deal of dis- 

 similarity between the situations. 



In dairying, Ontario is the great cheese- 

 producing province, and Quebec the butter- 

 producer. Likewise, in bee-keeping, Ontario 

 is largely an extracted- honey producer, and 

 Quebec a comb-honey producer. One of the 

 weakest points in the production of honey in 

 Ontario, as perhaps in all extracted-honey- 

 producing sections, has been the marketing 

 of unripe honey; and one of the weakest 

 points in the production of comb honey in 

 Quebec has been the production of combs at- 

 tached only to the bottom and sides of the 

 sections. The quality of the honey has been 

 all right, but the combs must be securely fas- 

 tened to the sections in order to take advan- 

 tage of the best markets that may be at a 

 distance. The remedy for this lies in using 

 a full sheet of thin or extra thin foundation 

 instead of the small starter generally used. 



Quebec, owing to winter snow, has more 

 natural clover than the present honey-pro- 

 ducing sections of Ontario; but this may not 

 be true when the more northerly portion 

 of our province is developed. The source of 



